My day job is that of a college professor, but I am a libertarian. I
haven’t watched television news or commercial television outside of the premium
channels on demand since 2008. I have been intending to terminate my cable
service, but my wife has deterred me until now. However, her brother, a physics
professor, has terminated his. In my case my motivation for wanting to
terminate cable service is a combination of cost and politics. I watch on
demand because I can screen out the Progressive programming and the
propaganda-cum-news. I consider American news to have the same content value
that Pravda and Izvestia had in the Soviet Union. I haven’t
watched television news, including NBC, since 2008.

Amazon.com and Netflix have sizable on-demand portfolios, yet there is
little reason for me to catch the latest episodes of the premium stations’
videos, so your business model and my $350-per-month bill to Time Warner are
likely ephemeral. I would rather watch Hitler’s Nuremburg rally than NBC news,
and I don’t see a distinction between Obama and Hitler or between the Soviet
news service and NBC.

I would appreciate your comments on the stories about the Jay Leno firing
and any other points that may address my concerns about persistent bias and the
laughable responsiveness of NBC to Washington's totalitarians.

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Mitchell Langbert

About Me

I have researched and written about employee benefit issues and in my previous life was a corporate benefits administrator. I am currently associate professor of business at Brooklyn College. I hold a Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, an MBA from UCLA and an AB from Sarah Lawrence College. I am working on a project involving public policy. I blog on academic and political topics.